Tadeusz Kutrzeba

Tadeusz Kutrzeba (15 April 1885-8 January 1947) was a general of the Polish Army who commanded the Poznan Army during World War II.

Biography
Born in Krakow, Austria-Hungary in 1885, Kutrzeba served in the army during World War I; he was stationed in Sarajevo at the time of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Kutrzeba became an officer late in the war, and he would enter the Polish Army as a veteran soldier. Kutrzeba was given command of the Poznan Army when war broke out with Nazi Germany in September 1939, and he would lead the Polish counterattack at Kutno during the Battle of the Bzura. However, he would be forced to surrender to the Germans after the fall of Warsaw, and he was imprisoned in a German POW camp until April 1945, when he was liberated by the US Army. After the war, Kutrzeba served as a historian in England, and he died of cancer in London in January 1947.